Mr. Vonnegut, as well as Mr. Rosewater, surely are smiling from that better place.

msemily

You do not include Scott McClellan in your list.

kritt11

Et Tu, Duberstein?

JMHO, but I think these conservatives are not only expressing dissatisfaction with McCain, Palin and their campaign tactics, but with the direction the GOP has taken during the last 8 years. I was always surprised at how little conservatives spoke out during the Bush years. Now they are seizing the opportunity to jump off the bow of the Titanic.

anamericanfirst

I didn't see my name on that list. I'm a neocon. I will vote FOR Obama. Those banners at the convention in St. Paul should have read “MYpersonalpoliticalambitionsFIRST”

daveinboca

Duberstein supposedly was the guy who gulled GHWB to renege on his “read my lips, no new taxes” promise and effectively helped scuttle a second term for Papa Bush. GHWB shouldn't have been so stupid as to take Dubie's word that calling a tax hike by another name would remove the sting.

Bubba J. Clinton thanks Dubie every day for the inside job he did back in '91.

HappySurge

And so it goes.

JWeidner

Interesting comment Dave. I like how you throw it out there with no care to source it at all…just a random “supposedly”. I guess that's how one can come up with smears about Obama too. “Supposedly, he's a muslim!” “Supposedly, he pals around with terrorists!” “Supposedly, he's a liber-social-marxist!”

Keep convincing yourself that all these Republicans are “traitors” to the cause in some way…there's no quicker way to marginalize your party than to “purify” it.

im4america2

After Tuesday, we won't hear anything more about Obama being a muslim, a socialist and a terrorist because he'll have lost the election. The polls are wrong. McCain is about to rub the smirk right off of BO's giraffe-like face. Do you really think American voters are going to elect a snake oil salesman like BO? Don't count on it. We know better.

Remember the election in 2006?

A little over one year ago:1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:1) Consumer confidence plummet;2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $4.10 a gallon;3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.7) Food prices skyrocketing over 30% in 1 year.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember, it is Congress that makes the laws and spends our money -not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.

The GOP will be much improved by drumming out East Coast elite traitors like Duberstein, Weld, & Chaffee. A new GOP will be better serverd by leaving these weak-kneed sisters to the other party and rebuilding our coalition with “Reagan Democrat” populists, Hawks, Social Conservatives, and repudiating GWB's “big government conservativism” to be replaced by advocates of small government and personal responsibility. Out with the Quislings! The Dems are welcome to the pondscum

mpsg1

So what happened to your prediction. You want to blame 8 years of failed policy on a Democratic House over a 2 year period! Get serious. What about the Republican Senate during that same period? Where were they? What were they doing? Do you know that Senator John McCain missed more votes in the senate than any other senator in the history of the U.S. Senate, and he is not done missing votes yet!

Get real about who is to blame and get serious about supporting our new President-Elect as he starts to clean up the mess….! You can yourself “im4america2″. Your comments don't fit the handle!

im4america2

You're declaring victory without BO serving one day in office?

Missing votes? Hell, I'd be happy if they all missed every vote. The economic issues we're experiencing began way back in the Clinton administration when we erased all the banking legislation that brought out of the great depression. Clinton had the line item veto and failed to use it. Bush never had the line item veto and suffered from it.

Yes, the Republicans did have a period of time in which they had more clout but didn't have the votes to reinstate banking regulations. In 2003, Bush warned Congress about the issues we were going to face but no one cared. Instead, Congress forced banks to take on high risk loans regardless of eminent default in order to boost the personal home ownership, new home sales and property values. Banks had no choice but to lend money to those who could not afford them.

The Republican Congress isn't without fault. I never said so. Without the line item veto, Bush had no power to force change on the Democrats in Congress AND the Republicans in his own party. Bush will take the fall on all of this but the real reason we are screwed is that Congress had full power to spend at will, legislate without oversight and force legitimate banks into writing default ready loans.

I really don't understand why you'd celebrate the fact that your hard earned money will be spent covering up Congress' greed and misuse of power? If you think this economy will be fixed with more spending versus discipline and reinstating the banking regulations we had in place prior to Bill Clinton, you are sadly mistaken.

The same Washington insider-snake oil salesmen who handed us this mess are back in power. BO's administration is Bill Clinton's administration. The Change is more like Change Back and BO is nothing more than their puppet. His handlers have already been making all his decisions. Haven't you been paying attention?